Twenty-nine percent of Americans want to abolish the one-cent coin, which begs the question: Is a penny saved really a penny earned? Scholars read fascinating facts about the history of the penny in preparation for a class debate or...

The first ever minimum wage in America was set at 25 cents per hour in 1938 and has been steadily, if slowly, increasing ever since. Using the provided website, pupils decide if the United States should further increase the federal...

Learn how to create a family tree. Also get tips from experts on researching your own ancestry, including working with census material, military records, and certifications.

Tracing African American history may be difficult, but the work of historian Henry Louis Gates proves that it isn't impossible. With this resource, learn how to plan a project on your family history.

The women of the fourth generation of Congresswomen had professional and political resumes that were more evolved than those of their predecessors. Although the widow mandate remains, candidates are judged less on familial ties than on...

A good examination on how many women in Victorian England supported their families with jobs outside the home and how this helped the British economy. Archived.

This article discusses cycle of global weather patterns and its relation to El Nino. Learn how global weather patterns are being tracked by satellites and how scientists are predicting weather patterns up to a year in advance.

A landing page for a course on the art history of Asia.

Learn about the writer of "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" and her early life -- how she heard family stories as a child, and how she developed the character Paul Edward for "The Land." There is an extensive bibliography of her works and...

A visit to a Victorian Family where they "Will show you how a middle-class Victorian family lives."

Want to know why houses in Bangladesh are on stilts? Or what a typical family might have for dinner? Resource presents information about the history, geography and environment, people and society and the work of Oxfam in Bangladesh.

Learn about issues related to slave gender roles at this PBS series site that features illustrations and documents dating back to the Colonial, Antebellum, and Reconstruction periods in American history.

WLVT PBS 39 explores how a family in Berks County, Pennsylvania has put much of the renewable energy resources to work on their farm. All of these technologies were showcased at the Renewable Energy Sustainable Living Festival for the...

An extensive biographical sketch of the life of Margaret Truman, daughter of United States President Harry S. Truman. Details her family background and educational history. Highlights her books she has published and works she has edited.

The digital revival of the glass plate images of the Russian Empire on the eve of World War I by photographer Sergei Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorskii. Very interesting from both historical and technological points of view.

A landing page for a course on African art found in regions and in individual countries.

Kids learn about the violin family of musical string instruments on this site. How they work, history, and styles of music are discussed.